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Ahvenainen, Essi (2018)Aims. The aim of this study was to find out kindergarten teachers’ methods to contribute play of children under 3-year-old. Also the research tries to bright up the importance of pedagogy in groups of under 3-year old children and thus to state reasons why kindergarten teachers’ professional skills are important in the groups of children under 3-year-old. The earlier researches point that grown-ups have a big role in the development of childrens’ play skills. Supporting childrens’ play skills is also a part of supporting the whole development of a child. Methods. The research is qualitative. The matter was collected with questionnaire in March-April 2018. The questionnaire was in electric form, and it was made with the Helsinki university’s own e-formed base. All questions were open except the questions about background. The link to the e-questionnaire was shared to many Facebook groups that concern early childhood education. The requires to being able to participate the research were that the examinee must have been graduated as a kindergarten teacher and have worked in the present year or works right now in a group of under 3-year-old children. The amount of answers to the questionnaire was 32. The matter was analyzed by content analysis. ATLAS.ti-app was used with support of the analysis. Results. The results show that kindergarten teachers use many different methods to makethe play possible and contribute the play of children under 3-year-old. Indirect and direct methods to contribute the play are being used equally based on the results. The pedagogy methods that were especially highlighted were attendance, participating the play and editing and updating the environment of play. These methods are necessarily important methods to make the play of under 3-year-old children possible. Based on the results, supporting also childrens’ independence and autonomy is also important along with participating in the play. The autonomy has to be given with suitable equally as the grown-up guides the play. All examinees except one had consensus that all under 3-year-old children needs a grown-up to make the play possible.
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